In just three months, Chen Xia borrowed 150,000 Spirit Stones. This also set a record.
Many cultivators felt that Chen Xia was planning to scoop up a fortune and then flee.
Although Chen Xia had lent out many flying swords, these flying swords were still under Chen Xia's control. They were just temporarily borrowed. As long as Chen Xia had a thought, these flying swords would instantly return.
The key was whether Chen Xia had that thought.
The cultivators who borrowed the money were obviously somewhat worried, but not too much, after all, they didn't borrow much, just tens or hundreds of Spirit Stones.
Especially when they learned that Emperor Capital had borrowed 25,000, Qiu Li had borrowed 30,000, plus a waist, they instantly calmed down.
Borrowing 20,000 to 30,000 Spirit Stones without worrying, what were they worrying about with their tens or hundreds of Spirit Stones?
They just didn't know why Qiu Li had been irritable recently, guarding the entrance of Emperor Capital's cave and shouting for Emperor Capital to come out and fight a battle to the death.
Passing disciples took a look and found that Qiu Li's waist was still wrapped in medicinal materials and bandages. They couldn't help but sigh.
"Worthy of being the Great Emperor's seedling, with just one injured waist he still dares to be so arrogant!"
Emperor Capital naturally would not go out. He sat quietly cultivating in the cave. With just a few words he had cost Qiu Li a waist, which was already a big win.
At the time, if it hadn't been for Chen Xia's interference, he would have called for Qiu Li to break his other waist as well.
It was just to give Chen Xia face.
Emperor Capital lowered his head. He had already figured out Chen Xia's reason for borrowing money recently.
It was to raise the 300,000 Spirit Stones needed, which was the price of that White Vine Grass in Qiong Qi's Sky Beyond Heaven.
There were two options after gathering enough: One was to go apologize to Qiong Qi, and end this matter once and for all, and resolve the grievances between them.
This was Chen Xia voluntarily bowing his head to Qiong Qi, which was damaging to the path of a Great Emperor's seedling.
The second option was to exchange the 300,000 Spirit Stones for the White Vine Flower, so Big Yellow Dog and Half-Red Feather's half-life would need to be compensated by Qiong Qi in some other way.
Emperor Capital felt that Chen Xia would choose the second option, but he couldn't be sure.
After all, Qiong Qi was involved with too many complicated factors, first and foremost the Third Elder, and then the Third Elder was on good terms with the Second Elder, and there was another big family behind them.
Chen Xia relied on Old Fisherman, the Guardian Elder of Blue Sky Sword Sea.
The two sides didn't seem too different in strength, but the benefits Qiong Qi brought to Blue Sky Sword Sea were clearly greater. The family behind him provided Blue Sky Sword Sea with considerable funding every year.
Emperor Capital shook his head and stopped pondering. He decided to just watch the show, anyway true life-and-death battles were not allowed between the Great Emperor's seedlings.
In the end, it would probably be a mutually destructive outcome.
Such were the rules of Blue Sky Sword Sea.
The Bronze Sword hovered in the air.
"Next time use more force, let's directly pluck Qiong Qi's head off, what do you think?"
Chen Xia discussed with the Bronze Sword.
The Bronze Sword shook its hilt, as if nodding in agreement.
"Then it's settled, no matter what, we must pluck off Qiong Qi's head!"
The Bronze Sword buzzed eagerly, obviously still upset about being humiliated last time.
After completing the Bronze Sword's motivational work, Chen Xia began making other preparations.
Blue Sky Sword Sea did not allow life-and-death battles between the Great Emperor's seedlings.
So if he wanted to kill Qiong Qi, he had to make sure no one else could come to Qiong Qi's rescue in time, which meant acting swiftly and covertly.
His plan was to use Reincarnation Extremity to pull Qiong Qi in, then immediately use his final killer move before anyone could react.
This plan was feasible, it just needed some optimization.
There was also another issue - what punishment would he face after beheading Qiong Qi?
Chen Xia specifically looked into it. Beheading another Great Emperor's seedling had a minimum punishment of centuries of imprisonment, and a maximum of the death penalty.
That meant he could trade his life for Qiong Qi's. Chen Xia was obviously unwilling to do that, so he came up with another idea.
His out-of-body avatar and the white jade futon.
The white jade futon could transfer consciousness, and his out-of-body avatar was also derived from his consciousness.
No one currently knew that his out-of-body avatar was almost the same as his main body, and that his consciousness could travel between the two.
It was just that this travel had a distance limitation, around 4-5 planets apart.
And Chen Xia had another hidden energy technique that he had always cultivated - the Turtle Breathing Technique.
This path which sacrificed longevity to cultivate could allow cultivators to slightly hide their energy when cultivating.
Consciousness transfer combined with the white jade futon would have unimaginable effects.
He could sink part of his consciousness into the Lower Heavens, but due to the distance limitation of the out-of-body avatar, he actually couldn't go to other Heavens, only appearing on one of the 4-5 planets outside of Blue Sky Sword Sea.
Then he could instantly transfer his consciousness back, and no one would know that he had already moved his out-of-body avatar out.
And this out-of-body avatar was actually almost the same as his main body.
If his main body died, this avatar could still preserve 70% of his strength.
To accomplish this idea, Chen Xia did a lot of experiments, such as going to the outermost area of Blue Sky Sword Sea and trying to leave from the Sect-Protecting Great Formation.
The cultivators guarding the formation stopped him, and also said: "Without the Sect's permission, entering or leaving will trigger the Great Formation's alarms."
After understanding this, Chen Xia was ready to take action. This was perhaps the riskiest thing he had done since entering Blue Sky Sword Sea.
It could alert Old Fisherman, but Old Fisherman actually couldn't do much to him at most, just imprison him.
If possession had been possible, Old Fisherman probably would have done so long ago.
So it wasn't actually that risky.
Chen Xia let out a breath, and sat down on the white jade futon. His consciousness sank down, and he added the points he had recently obtained all into his fortune.
[Fortune: 200, Chosen One]
He wasn't superstitious.
This fortune really was very useful.
His consciousness instantly immersed, as if entering long rivers, going with the flow. Within were all dots of light.
He entered a tiny dot of light.
His consciousness madly drilled outwards, like breaking out of a shell, and saw the first hint of light.
The out-of-body avatar stepped onto barren, parched land. Before his eyes was a pitted, bumpy surface. He looked up.
In the center of the sea of stars was an enormous planet, with a sword millions of miles long horizontally piercing through it, like a colossal sword laid across the stars.
Above the planet were sword-shaped clouds, below was a profoundly deep sea that stretched to the endless horizon.
Blue Sky Sword Sea!
Chen Xia stood on a dead planet. He instantly drilled into the planet's core and began silently cultivating the Turtle Breathing Technique.
Then his consciousness returned to his main body in the cave.
He opened his eyes.
Before him was Old Fisherman, who had suddenly appeared.
"Going down to the Lower Heavens?" Old Fisherman asked with concern.
"Yes." Chen Xia nodded. "I went to a barren small world, nothing good there, so I came back."
"That makes sense. Small worlds can barely sustain their own living beings, let alone have anything good." Old Fisherman had no suspicions.
After all, the flow of time in small worlds and great heavens was different. Naturally Chen Xia went and returned quickly.
"Focus on recovering from your injuries. Come find me if you need anything." Old Fisherman added.
"Alright." Chen Xia nodded.
Hundreds of millions of miles away, at the dead planet's core.
The other Chen Xia completely closed his eyes and began absorbing and devouring this entire...
Dead planet!